"When I was little, we lived next to the Sultan Hassan Mosque in Cairo, and the tram that passed through the wide street made a huge sound when it turned around the mosque. For me at that time the tram driver was the greatest, most important person in the world, because he drove that giant, fearsome monster. I kept wishing that I'd grow up to be a tram driver. However, I never managed to become a tram driver. I never even learned to drive a car. All that happened was that I learned to draw, and I became a mere draughtsman. But I have found, thank God, that this work gives me many wonderful opportunities, one of which is that I can draw myself as a tram driver, the way I always wished to be."

Mohieddin El-Labbad